job is performance related!

zweton

Started a new job recently and was told it was performance based and not based at all on the hours i do. Can come in at 10 and finish at 4. This is all very new to me and i was used to the usual 38-40 hr week.
Does anyone else have a job like this and how is performance measured?
Is it just by doing whatever your given or expected to do stuff out of work also. Its just a hard one to measure.

Stheno

zweton wrote: »

Started a new job recently and was told it was performance based and not based at all on the hours i do. Can come in at 10 and finish at 4. This is all very new to me and i was used to the usual 38-40 hr week.
Does anyone else have a job like this and how is performance measured?
Is it just by doing whatever your given or expected to do stuff out of work also. Its just a hard one to measure.

Several of my roles in the past few years have been like this, they are not clock watching that you are in bang for 9am and leave at 5:30, rather it's about getting the job done and doing it well. If you do that in less time than the standard 40 hour week, then you're quids in.

Focus on the tasks you have to complete and doing them well

Ray Palmer

So is it commission based?

I thought you have to pay minimum wage even on commission jobs

Honey-ec

Ray Palmer wrote: »

So is it commission based?

I thought you have to pay minimum wage even on commission jobs

I think he means he gets the same salary whether he does 35 or 40 hours in a week.

OP, you'll still be expected to do the core hours every week, just be aware of that. Also, it's worth pointing out that flexibility cuts both ways - they will expect you to stay late if and when it's required.

Also, it sounds like you're not really used to self-managing and motivating to an extent, so I'd maybe have a quick sit-down with your manager sooner rather than later, just to make sure you're both singing off the same hymnsheet in terms of what's expected.

zweton

great thanks.

seamus

Honey-ec wrote: »

I think he means he gets the same salary whether he does 35 or 40 hours in a week.

OP, you'll still be expected to do the core hours every week, just be aware of that. Also, it's worth pointing out that flexibility cuts both ways - they will expect you to stay late if and when it's required.

Also, it sounds like you're not really used to self-managing and motivating to an extent, so I'd maybe have a quick sit-down with your manager sooner rather than later, just to make sure you're both singing off the same hymnsheet in terms of what's expected.

+1 to this.

My main concern with "performance" related pay is the expectation that someone who is doing a good job is someone who makes themselves available 24 hours a day.
Some people are workaholics who will send emails at 2am on a Saturday. If the work is performance-related but you don't respond until 10am Monday, will they view that as underperformance?

In theory I like the idea because I reckon that there are a lot of modern jobs which can be done in half the time, but employers are fixated on this notion of minimum hours. So they're paying for employees to surf the web and make phone calls for 18 hours a week rather than just letting them do their 22 hours of productive work per week and then go home.
In practice though I think many employers interpret flexibility to mean availability.
So as said above, I think it's worth having a 1:1 meeting with your boss to find out what the company's expectations are of you.